{"id":4037,"date":"2025-12-23T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/taliban-russia-cooperation-drug-fight-kabul\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:46:02","slug":"taliban-russia-cooperation-drug-fight-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/taliban-russia-cooperation-drug-fight-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban and Russia Discuss Joint Efforts to Combat Drug Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minister for Counter-Narcotics of the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Interior met with the Russian Federation&#8217;s ambassador in Kabul on Tuesday to discuss bilateral cooperation in preventing drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulrahman Munir described drugs as a global problem during the meeting and called on the international community, particularly Russia, to collaborate with the Taliban administration in providing alternative livelihoods for farmers and in treating addicts.<\/p>\n<p>Munir emphasized that effective efforts to combat drug cultivation and trafficking are not possible without creating sustainable economic options for rural residents and expanding treatment services for addicts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian ambassador in Kabul, described the efforts and declared achievements of the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Interior in the fight against drugs as unprecedented\u2014a claim that, in the absence of independent and transparent assessments, remains subject to scrutiny and requires further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s counter-narcotics deputy meets Russian ambassador in Kabul to discuss cooperation against drug trafficking and support for farmers and addicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}